Whats the most tired you have ever been?

Saw a black dog or black deer one night?

 

i remember..going east on i-40 through amarillo..had a 1200 mile trip. I had gotten some good rest but as my name says..im a night driver & we all know in between the hours of 12am - 6am..the body is asking for sleep. I slowly began to doze of from the boredness of the nightly road..i began smacking myself to stay up..couldn’t quite keep it there..after almost 2hours of fighting my sleep i finally pulled into a rest area & messeged my dispatch to inform them im pulling over to rest for a hour..let me mention..i was swerving as if i was being pushed around by wind but i managed to fight it before pulling over. Lol be safe out there driver. get some rest. pull over if need be.

 

I have hallucinated a few times while being extremely sleep deprived. One time a group of trees on the side of the road turned into a giant turtle that looked like it was about to cross the road. When I slammed on the breaks to avoid it, the fear and adrenaline snapped me out of my hallucinating and allowed me to continue on.

Not proud that I allowed my self to get like that.

 

lol.....funny how some of us could just "go out" like that, but many of us did just that.....lol

serioulsy though, better to be down on one knee in the garden or talking with someone with eyes open, then to be on the road when that "could have" happened.

 

When i was getting my cdl through old dominions driver program we did 7 days of class work with videos and bookwork also some short driving mostly backing stuff. I was at the time on the dock and the yard goat so i was better in reverse. But my first 2 weeks of actual driving with a trainer was doing p.m line haul from spokane to the dalles Oregon and back to spokane. So i went from working from 3:45 a.m to around 12:00 p.m to 7:00p.m to 7:00 a.m or whenever we were done. So internal clock already screwed up and on my second night of driving were on our way back i start getting the sleeps real bad like elephants crossing hwy in front of me my trainer checks with me everything ok need to pullover and swap there is no shame in saying your tired just say the word. I'm trying to be super driver second night and I'm struggling. So I'm about to throw in towel when this set of airplane lights become visable to my left side and there really low like 20 feet off of ground low and the plane goes cruising over top of us super low and i turn to steve and go #### that plane is really low and its 330 in morning thats no good. Steve goes hey buddy at this next off ramp pull over and lets switch. I said why i can make it he said that wasn't a plane that was a cattle hauler on the overpass. I said yep your turn.

 

Just put a tire off the pavement and the gravel wakes you. You will be awake for like 3 days! Haha airplane lights.

 

This happens to me a lot. It's one of the thing that scare the hell outta me. Because my foot is on the brake before I see this.

 

I used to drive untill o was so tired I rolled from my seat to the bunk, pass out, and wake up feeling lost as ####.

 

My first oilfield job back in 2010 I was up for almost 3 days chasing rigs (no drug use lol) Drove an international 9900 sleeper stretched into a flatbed. Drove from Clarskburg WV to right outside Pittsburgh Airport. About a 2 hour drive. I don’t remember any of it. 3 guys were asleep while I drove. They had to help me out of the truck when we got back to the shop. I was completely zoned out and disoriented.

I was old enough to know better but did the wrong thing anyways. Back then my stupidity controlled me lol.